Superhero Dog

Telling the remarkable tale of a man who is still remembered on the streets of New Orleans and in the hearts of professional-wrestling fans, this book aims to restore the overlooked Junkyard Dog to his proper place in the history books. In 1979, Sylvester Ritter, also known as the Junkyard Dog, managed to break one of the final color barriers in the sport by becoming the first Black wrestler named undisputed top star of his promotion, and this biography reveals all the famous feuds and business back stories that made him a wrestling legend.

Does your dog really love you? Or, like many owners, is your dog only your best friend when you are cuddling on the couch? When you step outside your front door, is he more interested in every passing dog, bird or half-eaten bag of chips that you come across? Does the mere thought of letting your dog off lead get your heart racing with panic? Well that's how I used to feel, until I discovered how to control - and train - my dog using play. Now I enjoy stress-free walks wherever I take him.

Wanda and Wumble are a small pair with vast ambitions. One an aspiring alchemist, and the other her faithful hound, the pair bond as wizard and familiar to begin their pursuit of magic. As a newly made wizard without any training, resources, or even a home to return to, Wanda will have to forge her own way on a path where constant dangers lurk. Even the simple act of furthering her alchemy education swiftly becomes a harrowing ordeal.

Welcome to Maplewood Bay—where breakfast comes with a side of murder. Blakely Monroe thought running a bed and breakfast would be peaceful. But when the most hated food critic in town drops dead in a breakfast tart, her grand opening turns into a crime scene. Now the guests are gossiping, the muffins are suspiciously missing, and the police aren’t exactly helpful. Armed with a color-coded planner, her slightly OCD instincts, and Scout—a dog with a nose for clues—Blakely teams up with her farmer neighbor, Bobby, to uncover the truth. But Maplewood Bay is full of secrets. Like Nora ...

All his life, twelve-year-old Ben Grishop has been practically nonexistent. Hardly anyone knows who he is, he’s not good at anything no matter how hard he tries, and he blends into all chairs and benches. But when he and his friends Joe and Dana are abducted by aliens one fateful summer night, they have the chance to become famous for saving the universe. That is, if they can survive a planet full of giant, man-eating, French-speaking crabs, a pair of tuxedoed, gibberish-spouting men with handlebar mustaches, and the mysterious “immensely powerful, evil force from The Realm Beyond." ...

Rhett is strong. He's loyal. He's the kind of man who runs toward danger without a single superpower to protect him — and has done it for eight years beside his superhero wife, Rayne. Together, they've kept Summercoast safe. Together, they've been unbeatable. Until now. Dark Lightning is unlike anything they've faced — a villain with abilities even Rayne can't match, who seems to know her every weakness before she uses it. For the first time, Rayne needs help that Rhett can't give her. So she finds it elsewhere: a true superhero, powered and prepared, who makes Rhett feel like exactly ...

Nobody said being married was easy. Try being married to a superhero. Ariana, Victoria, and Emma have built their lives around extraordinary men — and very ordinary problems. Laundry that smells like housefires. Careers balanced around crisis calls. Dinners that go cold while their husbands pose dramatically on rooftops. They love their spouses. They’d just love them more if they came home on time occasionally. When a catastrophic earthquake devastates Shadow Town and crime spirals out of control, everyone expects the heroes to fix it. But these three women aren’t buying the official ...

The World’s Worst Superheroes, from Children's author David Walliams. When is the queen not just the queen? When she is WONDERQUEEN! KAPOW! Is that an especially large bird? Is it a weirdly small plane? No: it’s THUNDERHOUND! BLAM! When her schoolteachers turn into deadly dinosaurs, who can...

Nessa Mintz knew the rule—she just never planned on following it. Rule #1 of being a supervillain: Don’t fall for the hero. (Seriously. Don’t.) Nessa has perfected the art of the accidental rescue — Ferris wheels, jumbotrons, whatever it takes to manufacture a moment with Thunderbolt. It's all part of the Ladies in Leather’s master plan: get close, expose the Wonderful Wons' darkest secrets, and finally get justice for the forty-two people they failed. Clean. Clinical. Villainous. Except nobody told her heart. For someone who can read every mind she touches, Nessa is doing an ...

Deadly pages, tangled yarn, and one very nosy innkeeper. When slightly OCD B&B owner Blakely Monroe agrees to help host a knitting-themed book event at Maplewood Bay’s cozy bookstore, she expects dropped stitches—not a hated local critic collapsing in the aisle, knitting in hand and poison in her veins. With electronic locks sealing everyone inside and her detective-nosed dog Scout glued to the crime scene, Blakely is suddenly juggling panicked guests, her meddling-but-charming Grandma Rose, and the steady presence of dog-whispering farmer Bobby Zion. Tension crackles through the ...

What would happen if a dog became a superhero? In this exciting middle grade adventure, Joe is a run-of-the-puppy-mill cocker spaniel who dreams of being special, but suffers with the curse of being average. He lives in the suburbs of Barksdale with his friends Elwood, a dopey mutt who looks like a genetic mishap, and Frank, a plump wiener dog. When the dogs devour heaping mounds of dog food that is laced with plutonium, their DNA evolves. Joe transforms into MegaDog, a superhero with a passion for funky music. Elwood mutates into Baywolf, a sleek, black wolf with a hip-hop attitude, and ...

A charming garden tour. A poisonous surprise. And one seaside B&B blooming with secrets. When Blakely Monroe inherits the Oceanspray Bed & Breakfast, she expects overbooked rooms, nosy knitters, and maybe a crooked scarf or two—not a body among the roses. Slightly OCD and still learning to loosen her grip on life and her knitting needles, Blakely is determined to prove she belongs in Maplewood Bay, even when chaos takes root. With her dog Scout and farmer-neighbor Bobby watching her back, Blakely digs into a mystery that refuses to stay buried. The victim, Mrs. Bailey, was disliked, ...

Lola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable. Unsalvageable. These would become the same dogs America relied on when its...

Get ready for a wild and wacky adventure in "The Brown Note: The Epic Poop-tastic Quest!" Meet Tommy, a young inventor with big dreams of winning "The Young Inventor of the Year Competition." But there's just one problem – all his inventions are total duds! Tommy's quest for a winning idea takes a hilarious twist when he stumbles upon something unexpected. On his way home from school one day, Tommy discovers an old keyboard hidden in a pile of junk. But this isn't your ordinary keyboard – it's contains the legendary Brown Note! And this note has some seriously stinky surprises in store....

Madison Steele has a problem. Actually, she has several. The Ladies in Leather need five million dollars for their revenge fund — which means Madison needs to raise it from one very wealthy, very complicated billionaire. Easy enough for a woman who can light things on fire. Less easy when said fires keep happening at deeply inconvenient moments. What was meant to be a simple charity ball fundraiser turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse — except the mouse is secretly a lion, the cat keeps accidentally combusting things, and somewhere in the middle of a ransom situation, the plan...

Fog, feathers, and foul play descend on Maplewood Bay. Blakely Monroe, still finding her footing as the new owner of the Oceanspray B&B, hopes a birdwatchers’ weekend will be a calm escape from her messy past. Instead, her slightly OCD routines—and her breakfast buffet—are disrupted when Rosemary Bellamy, the town’s most disliked historian, is found dead at the lighthouse steps. Pulled into the storm, Blakely juggles gossip from best friend Marnie, steady guidance from neighbor Bobby Zion, and Scout’s sharp nose for clues. But Maplewood’s secrets run deep. Was it the poetry-...

Hannah Rodriguez is having one of those days. Her dishwasher is flooding the kitchen, there's a homicidal mad scientist on the loose, and her neighbor Hunter — the devastatingly perceptive, annoyingly attractive reporter — just knocked on her door asking questions that are hitting way too close to home. As the unofficial leader of the Ladies in Leather and Storm Singer to the rest of the city, Hannah has always managed to keep her worlds separate. Secret identity: intact. Personal life: contained. Dishwasher: currently winning. But Hunter's been writing increasingly accurate articles ...

Emily Tate never planned on becoming a supervillain. But when the city's so-called heroes save millions by redirecting a missile straight into a chemical plant, turning her sister into collateral damage, justice stops looking heroic and starts looking a lot like leather. Now she's assembling the Ladies in Leather: five superpowered women united by grief, wine, and a shared enemies list. Their first mission? Break Emily's infuriatingly gorgeous ex-husband out of maximum security prison. The same man whose secrets shattered her world. The same one who still calls her darling. Their plan for ...

Muffins, morning fog, and a body staged to look like an accident. Blakely Monroe arrives at Beacon Point Lighthouse before sunrise with her grandmother’s muffins, craving a quiet start to a packed weekend at the Oceanspray Bed & Breakfast. Instead, her dog Scout drags her down the cliff path to a corpse arranged a little too perfectly. The victim wasn’t loved. Grayson Pike extorted vendors and threatened to control Beacon Point, leaving plenty of locals with reason to celebrate his fall. As gossip churns and suspicion spreads, Blakely teams up with farmer Bobby Zion, whose steady ...

Thea Mendel is living in her car because there's a ghost in her house. At a Halloween party, she meets someone who believes her, a boy with green eyes and ghosts of his own named Thomas. Someone wants to do worse to Thea than kill her, and in order to find out who they are and what they want, the two of them will have to deal with a clan of unusually helpful vampires, unexpected Shoggoths, and all the weird that Rhode Island can throw at them. And that's a lot of weird.